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WPVI Good Morning America September 27, 2014

Clooney, his fiancee and alist celebirty friends arrive in venice to kick off the superexpensive wedding bash. When and where the longtime bachelor will tie the knot. Find out soon enough. Good morning. Check out the new pictures out of venice this morning. The man who once publicly promised permanent bachelorhood, were not talking about Ron Claiborne here, George Clooney, now tying the knot. That doesnt look like the face of a man dragging, does it . George clooney and Amal Alamuddin hosting twin parties. Shes a stunner in this red dress for her ladiesonly dinner. A report from venice on the Wedding Party ahead. But start with the breaking news overnight, the birth that could impact the future of the white house. Chelsea clinton delivering a baby girl. We have all the detail this is morning. The questions, will being a grandmother make Hillary Clinton a stronger, more relatable candidate or make her not want to run at all . Lets get it over to the newest member of the abc news team, tom llamas. A huge welcome to you. Good morning. Thank you so much. The clintons are held many titles. This morning bill and hillary are grandparents. Chelsea giving birth to a baby girl. Charlotte is the name. Its only been seven hours. But Everyone Wants to know, how will this affect hillarys future, grandmother in chief or commander in chief or both . Celebration overnight. One of the most influential families in american politics welcoming a new member to their famil family. Chelsea clinton, giving birth to her first child. Charlotte clinton mezvinsky. Tweeting overnight marc and i are full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter. Many waiting for the birth since they announced the pregnancy on april 17th. Marc and i are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year. Well, a grandchild, yes. Which im really excited about. Reporter in may of this year, robin sat down for an interview with hillary. Youre going to be a grandma. You and your husband are happy and excited about that. When you can of this grandchild, what do you want . I want a happy, healthy child. Reporter others had advice for the soontobe grandparents. Former president george w. Bush making this joke to former president clinton at a leadership conference. Be prepared to fall completely in love. Get ready also to be like the lowest person in the pecking order in your family. Reporter earlier this week, george and bill spoke about the upcoming birth. Whats the biggest thing to teach your new grandchild . Want them to get up every day and look at the world with wonder and reverence. Reporter we dont know if hillary will run for president in 2016, but with the addition of charlotte into their family, the clintons will have plenty to celebrate and cherish for years to come. But back to 2016. Hillary said she looks forward to being a grandmother. She will have something she didnt have when chelsea was growing up, time. Being a grandmother is one reason why she may not run. Chelsea actually decorated the nursery with elephants. Thats weird because its the republican mascot. Chelsea works to save african elephants. Its close to her heart. I dont know the clintons, but if i did, id buy the baby a pants suit onesie. Thats the perfect gift. Wellplayed. Great to have you. Its an honor to be here. Thanks. Welcome, tom. And turn now to a terrible bus crash overnight involving a College Softball team. At least four young women on the team killed, a dozen more injured when their bus collided with a semitruck on a highway in oklahoma. And t. J. Holmes is here with more on how it happened. Good morning and welcome. Reporter this is devastating for any College Community to deal with the death of students. The School Started a month ago, and coping with the tragedy. And the big question for investigators, why the semi truck crossed the Center Median and virtually wiped out the vehicle carrying these young women. Tragedy overnight. Four students killed after the school bus carrying the North Central texas College Softball team collides with a semitruck. Murray county, stand by for accident. Reporter the fatal accident happened near the oklahomatexas border when they were traveling back to campus after a game. Authorities say there are more than a dozen injuries. We were trying to use a jack to get the bus up to get her out. Reporter the four fatales are members of the Softball Team. Three pronounced dead on the scene, one after being taken to a local hospital. As the campus now begins to grieve, the school released this statement. We ask for your prayers at this time for our Softball Team. Their bus has been involved in an cincinnati in oklahoma. The ntsb handling this investigation. Sending a goteam expected to be at the site a little bit later today. The team is expected to play next wednesday. No word if that game will actually take place. We will hear a release from the College Campus later today to update us about how things are going there on campus. Such tragic news. And welcome to the abc news family as well. Thank you, good to be here. Good to be home. Tough story, but we are happy to have you here. Thank you. And this morning, a lot more about the flight delays and cancellations thanks to yesterdays active sabotage at a critical air Traffic Control there near chicago. Grounded planes, left tens of thousands of passengers stranded from coast to coast. And the problems persist. David kerley has the latest. Hes at Reagan National airport outside of washington, d. C. Good morning. Reporter its another tough day for fliers who yesterday did not get home, they may not get home today. And now theyre finding out how much damage there is to the control center. These lines, thousands of travelers because of one man, gasoline and a devastating fire at an air Traffic Control center. We know what happened in this faa facility outside of chicago, causing the shutdowns, the delays, and the cancellations. And this radar map with a hole over chicago. No planes over the air space. Passengers stranded. We drove out here and arrived to this chaos. Our flight got cancelled. Reporter what happened . 5 06 a. M. , brian howard, a contract Telecommunications Worker enters the building hes worked in for eight years with a rolling bag. Hes being told hes transferring to hawaii. 30 minutes later, 5 36, he posts on facebook an apparent suicide note. Quote, im about to take out the air Traffic Control center and my life. 5 42, 911 calls, a fire burning in the control center. Two paramedics follow the smoke and a trail of blood until they find a 36yearold white male with cuts on his arms and trying to cut his throat. Is sounds like this man knew what he was doing. He went right to the heart of the electronic control of the center. Considering the results of almost completely shutting down the chicago air Traffic Control center, i would say that guy knew exactly what he was doing. Reporter it wasnt just until hours ago that the faa was able to gete amazing it could go into next week. Thank you very much for that. Its an unfortunate domino effect. And now to the surprise eruption in japan. Hikers capturing incredible video as the plume of smoke and ash from a volcano turns the sky dark. Hundreds of people are said to be trapped near the peak. Abcs Michelle Franzen has more. Reporter youre looking at the moments right after the volcano erupted in central japan today. These climbers, out of breath near the 10,000 foot peak and terrified. Scrambled to escape the massive plume of smoke and ash as it filled the sky above mount ontake, japans secondhighest volcano. Dangerous boulders lined their path, and the hikers are not able to outpace the cloud. Showering them in debris and darkness as the cameras are rolling. This morning, there are reports at least eight people have been injured, one seriously. And as many as 250 people could be stranded near the peak. It is the first time in seven years this volcano has been active. The plume so huge officials had to divert airplanes away from the region. And look at this photo. The ash turning everything into a black and white landscape. Following the eruption, Japans Meteorological Agency raised it to 3 on a scale of 1 to 5, alerting people to stay away from the peak. And authorities are warning people below to stay as far away as possible. Because debris can fall some two and a half miles away from the volcano site. The search and rescue continues. Teams wont be able to see or do much until day break in japan. Dan and paula. Those photos were just stunning. Incredible pictures. A lot going on overnight. For that we turn to Ron Claiborne. And mr. Ron claiborne. Right, you have to remember that. Good morning, everyone. We begin with the case of the missing uva student. The man charged in the disappearance of Hannah Graham is back in virginia, shackled and wearing a bullet proof vest. Jesse matthew jr. Arrived in charlottesville early friday. Matthew, who was arrested in texas, is facing one felony abduction charge. The 32yearold was the last person known to be with graham the night she disappeared two weeks ago. Matthew is not cooperating with police. And Health Officials are investigating the possibility of the first death from the enterovirus d68. A new jersey preschooler died from suffering from some kind of respiratory illness. The school has been ordered to be sanitized. Seeing if its connected to muscular weakness and paralysis. Nine children in denver, four confirmed with the virus. And the fbi is investigating the deadly rampage at a Food Processing plant in oklahoma. Al ton nolen allegedly killed a coworker, allegedly beheading her with a knife. The company executive, reserve Police Deputy shot and wounded nolen. Sources tell abc that authorities are investigating that nolen posted jihadi rants on facebook. A big, wet mess on the streets of West Hollywood after a water main burst on the streets friday night. It was dating back to 1916. It exploded, sending hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. The flow has been stemmed, but parts of sunset remain closed. And new details in the iphone 6 viral uproar, dubbed bendgate. Consumer reports did stress tests on the iphone 6 and 6 plus and pronounced the new apple smartphones to be, quote, unquote, pretty tough. The iphone 6 plus was slightly stronger, 110 pounds of pressure before it deformed. Thats the technical for come apart. And friday night lights of a different kind. A huge honor for tennessee student Katie Hargrove before her schools Football Game friday. Crowned homecoming queen three months after surviving a horrific plane crash. Everyone on board that plane, as amazing as it seems, survived. Unbelievable. It is. She dreamed of becoming queen of since she started high school. Congratulations to her. And for a young woman who broke her back, looks fantastic. Thats great. Really resilient. Thanks, ron. Thanks mr. Ron. New developments in the intense mountain manhunt for a cop killer in pennsylvania. Police have found clues on eric freins computer leading them to a massive abandoned hotel. Linzie janis has been following this search every step of the way and has the latest from pennsylvania. Good morning. Reporter good morning, dan. Police say the evidence they continue to find in these woods has them convinced that eric frein is here. How can they be so sure . One new detail emerging overnight, frein tried to make a phone call. Overnight, an army of Law Enforcement officers scouring a deserted resort in their hunt for eric frein. We will find you and we will bring you to justice. Reporter police say the fugitive has been to this abandoned inn. Welcome to buck hill inn. Reporter where mtv once filmed its show named fear, and they say he could return. Officers going room by room, on the lookout for booby traps. Overnight revealing frein has experimented with bomb making. And new evidence from a computer hard drive. That proves he has been planning an attack for two years. Extensive Internet Research on how to avoid policeman manhunts and skills related to survival. Reporter and abc news learning how Law Enforcement officials tracked him. Frein turning on his cell phone deep in the woods last week, police locating the signal. They say we walked 15 miles from the barracks where he ambushed two state troopers, killing one of them, to the very woods where he grew up. We spoke with melissa frein whos married to eric freins brother, michael. Any idea why he shot at the troopers . We have no idea. Reporter how is michael doing . Hes in shock that his brother would be capable of doing Something Like this. Reporter for the people in the search zone, their yards looking like a war zone. Joist taking these photos from her bedroom window. Afraid to go outside without her gun. Have you thought about what youd do . If you see him in the backyard . If its him or me, im sorry, im not ready to go. Reporter police have not seen frein in roughly three days, but they have no plans to scale back their search. They say theyre confident theyll find him soon. Paula. Residents on edge. Thank you so much. And now a big scare at a high school in oregon. A student bringing a homemade bomb into the school. It was only detected after he was overheard bragging about it. Abcs aditi roy is tracking this story. Reporter chaos erupting at st. Helens high school near portland, oregon, after Authorities Say they found a homemade bomb in a students locker. Police saying the suspect, a 16yearold boy, made the device thursday night. Showing it off to friends near the School Friday morning. He told me he made this bomb. I met up with them over there. Reporter those friends alerted faculty. Investigators say once confronted, the student admitted to School Officials that he had the explosive in his locker. Police were notified and the school evacuated. I was sitting in my first period, creative writing. And over the intercom, they said lets go to the stadium. It was scary. Reporter Police Reporting that the High School Sophomore did not threaten to do anything with the bomb. Yes, it was explosive and yes, it probably could have hurt somebody. But to what end, i dont know. Reporter classes resumed once investigators cleared the scene. Back to normal after a tense morning. I was shocked. Who would bring that to school . I dont know what was going through his head. Reporter for good morning america, aditi roy. Abc news, los angeles. Switch gears now to the story of a young boy who mysteriously vanished in florida. And the surprising role played by a reporter assigned to recover the story. It led to a moving reunion. And sara is here with more. Good morning. Usually when you get assigned a story, you cover the story, you dont become the story. In this case, the newsman did become the story with a very happy ending. After nearly 14 hours of searching and worrying, an emotional reunion. 10yearold paul fagan went missing from his grandmothers home in tampa around 8 00 p. M. Thursday night. Authorities combed the neighborhood, but by friday morning, still no sign of the boy. Until cameron, a local reporter with the abc station who was covering the search made an extraordinary discovery, getting the biggest scoop of all. I could see that it looked like a young boy. I was thinking he had to be around the age of the missing boy, paul. And i thought to myself, this cant be the kid. I asked him, hey, bud, can you give me your name . And he muttered, paul. Reporter he found him just next door in a neighbors yard, hiding. Afraid he would get in trouble for running away. He was wondering if he was still in trouble. I was just in the right place at the right time. Reporter and just a few hours later, he was back in his fathers arms. Its like a wonderful joy. Like your son first being born. I love him. Thats all i can say. Reporter now, when the little boy was asked why he ran away, he said he needed a little space from his brother. A little bit. Yeah. Thats great. Thats usually what happens. Yeah, i have those feelings. You need space from us. Really cute kid. Really cute kid. Adorable. And a happy ending. Of course i dont need space from you. Whatever. Maybe just a little bit. Rob marciano is here with the national forecast. Tightknit family. And that reporting proves that not all news people are bad, were good samaritans. Good job there. And vegas. This video coming at us. Severe thunderstorms in this hear. Doesnt take much there. Half an inch of rain. Thats a half a foot of flooding and boulder city seeing some of that action. And from there, hail. Napa valley, hail accumulating across wine country. Theyre going through the harvest and the crush right now. No word if theres damage to any of the tender grapes. Ron listening carefully there. Big storm rolling across parts of the southwest. Complicated system to condense, and probably more storms in the same spots as last night. Matter of the fact, just north of phoenix up through las vegas, a severe thunderstorm watch until 11 00 a. M. Local time. Flooding and strong winds, maybe hail. And a haboob yesterday. That storm in phoenix. We might see another one today. Heavy rains. 2 to 3 inches expected. Rain from mexico to the canadian border. So a large system pumping moisture into the mountains and heat into the plains. Into the 80s. 83 in rapid city after the snows last week. A rapid rise in temperatures there. Rain across parts of the southeast. Thats a look at the big p good morning, everyone, im meteorologist chris sowers with this accuweather update. Storm tracker 6 live no moisture out there, just ground clutter. We have t

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